| Vol 8, No 231 | August 19, 1886 | Thursday Evening |
(1940)
On this date in 1940, Virgil Oliver Stamps, founder of the Stamps Quartet and Stamps–Baxter Music and Printing Company died. He and his group, the Stamps Quartet, started a noonday Gospel show on KRLD Radio in Dallas which attracted gospel singers nationwide. Stamps was 57.
On this date in 1931, legendary horseracing jockey Willie Shoemaker is born in Fabens in El Paso County. In his career, Shoemaker rode 8,833 winners, 250 with purses of $100,000 or more. He also won 10 national money titles and over $123 million in purses.
(1886)
On August 19-21 1886, a major hurricane completely destroyed the port city of Indianola. A previous hurricane destroyed the city 11 years before. This time, the city was never rebuilt.
(1895)
On this date in 1895, John Wesley Hardin, one year after being pardoned for murder, and having become an attorney, was shot dead in an El Paso bar by Constable John Selman, a man Hardin hired to kill Martin
Mroz, a former client and the husband of Hardin's lover, Helen Beulah Mroz. Hardin it seems, never paid Selman. Mroz died in a shootout on the Juarez bridge before Selman could get to him.
